History Film / DarkShadows

* LadyInRed: Angelique turns up to the Collins' Ball looking absolutely stunning in a [[http://www.beyondhollywood.com/dark-shadows-2012-movie-preview-images-and-videos/dsd_fullbody_busshelter_angelique_rgb/ sequined red dress]].

* JustForPun: Carolyn, who is [[spoiler: a werewolf]] spends much of the movie acting bitchy.

* StealthPun: Crossing over with Fridge Brilliance when Angelique first sees Carolyn and says she's growing into "Quite the fetching creature." [[spoiler:Carolyn is later revealed to be a werewolf.]]

** However, while Barnabas is compelled to kill, he seems to have some control over who and when. The fact he never harms any of his family members is proof of that. He slaughters Julia even though she did him no harm and a bunch of people who were nothing but kind and accepting towards him. Yet he spares Roger's life despite ample proof he's an asshole. Also he never looks at ways to get blood without killing anyone.

* ParentalAbandonment: After witnessing Maggie talking to what they think is an ImaginaryFriend [[spoiler: (the ghost of Josette actually)]], her parents sent her to a [[BedlamHouse mental hospital]] when she was a child.

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Apparently, Angelique managed to successfully run a business for 200 years despite all legal limitations and social prejudice placed on woman entrepreneurs. {{Justified}} since it's implied she has the same power to charm and entrance people like Barnabas does. Also, it is never stated that she didn't use puppet "husbands" and "brothers".

* NothingButHits: Even if several of the songs heard were performed well past 1972.

--> Angelique about Julia's murder: Aren't we being a tad hypocritical? Lying and stealing blood are things that come very naturally to you.

** However, while Barnabas is compelled to kill he seems to have some control over who and when. The fact he never harms any of his family members is proof of that. He slaughters Julia even though she did him no harm and a bunch of people who were nothing but kind and accepting towards him. Yet he spares Roger's life despite ample proof he's an asshole. Also he never looks at ways to get blood without killing anyone.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Barnabas fits the classic definition. [[WeakenedByTheLight Sunlight]] and silver make him [[ManOnFire spontaneously combustive]].
** However he ''can'' endure sunlight if sufficiently covered or keeps to the shadows.

** [[spoiler:Carolyn being a werewolf: The first time we see Carolyn she's wearing a very short dress and throughout the whole film DoesNotLikeShoes (when she transforms her legs change so much they rip her tights); the second time she's eating under a painting of a full moon and her cousin says she makes animal noises at night. Angelique also refers to her as a "fetching creature". Also, the ''Scooby Doo'' episode featuring a werewolf and the secret passage features wolves howling at the moon. And on the night Angelique tries to get the Collins family arrested, there is a full moon in the sky, Carolyn senses this and eerily goes inside the mansion and closes both doors.]]

* ADateWithRosiePalms: While arguing at the table, David mentions that Carolyn touches herself and moans 'like a kitten'.
--> '''David''': Carolyn touches herself. She makes noises like a kitten.
--> '''Elizabeth''': ''(disgusted)'' David!
--> '''Carolyn''': ''(angered)'' You little shit!
--> '''Elizabeth''': Carolyn, David, enough! Both of you!

* RemakeCameo: Jonathan Frid, Lara Parker, David Selby and Kathryn Leigh Scott, who played Barnabas Collins, Angelique, Quentin Collins, and Josette [=DuPres=] in the original ''Series/DarkShadows'', appear in the ball at Collinwood Manor (they are the group of people Barnabas greets as they arrive for "the happening"). This was the last role for Jonathan Frid, who died less than a month before the film opened (too late for the film to include a memoriam caption for him).

* AbsoluteCleavage: Eva Green is ''stunning'' in a red evening gown.

* MadonnaWhoreComplex: Josette and Victoria are the virtuous, conservatively dressed good girls. Angelique is the [[AbsoluteCleavage cleavage-baring]], sexually aggressive villainess.

* MoodWhiplash: After a very serious opening, the film morphs into a BlackComedy. However, the film does switch back to a darker tone at times.
** Sometimes, it does this in a way that's very jarring. For example, when Barnabas finds a group of hippies, he grows to really enjoy being in their company, and opens up to them about his problems and feelings. The hippies, in response, are very supportive and nice to him, more than anyone else has been up until then, and Barnabas seems happier than he's ever been since he woke up in that century. [[spoiler:Then he simply tells them that despite enjoying his time with them, he has to kill them all, and proceeds to do just that.]] It may be PlayedForLaughs, but it easily comes off as terrifying, even sad, that he would suddenly just do that to people that he had been bonding so well with.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

%%* GreenEyedMonster: Angelique.

%%* HauntedHouse

--> Hippy: "[[UsefulNotes/VietnamWar What's good about this war is,]] it's ''so bad'', [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror there's never gonna be another one."]]

* TheSeventies: TurnedUpToEleven.

* BastardGirlfriend: Angelique kills Barnabas' parents and girlfriend and locks him in a coffin for close to two centuries. Doesn't prevent him from being attracted to her.

* EvilVersusEvil/ ALighterShadeOfBlack: Barnabas and Angelique are both clearly evil. Murder, mind-control, vicious mindset, and so on. Barnabas considers himself to be the lesser evil, arguing that all the bad things that Angelique does are her own fault... while all the bad things he does are ''also'' her fault, since Angelique's the one who turned Barnabas into a vampire. See also the ProtagonistCenteredMorality example.

* LoveTriangle: Barnabas is in love with Maggie/Victoria, but also has a sizzling relationship with Angelique, who is still in love with him after 196 years (cue the massive amounts of FoeYay and [[UnresolvedSexualTension UST]]).

* TheCameo: Music/AliceCooper.
** Creator/ChristopherLee shows up too, playing the aged fisherman Barnabas hypnotizes. Tim Burton frequently casts him in supporting roles; Christopher previously played the judge who sends Johnny to ''Film/SleepyHollow1999'', and Johnny's father in ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory''. He also voiced Pastor Gallswells in ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'', and the Jabberwocky in ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010''.
*** Not to mention playing {{Dracula}} in the Hammer film series. The theater in Collinsport is even showing his film ''Film/DraculaAD1972''.

* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler:Carolyn while in werewolf form doesn't hold out in the final fight.]]

* FoeYay: [[invoked]] Stacks of it with Barnabas and Angelique. They hate each other, but quite obviously lust for each other.

** Barnabas is trapped in a coffin for 200 years. He seems to have dealt with this nightmare by obtaining a twisted sense of time while he was imprisoned. The second time he's imprisoned in a coffin, however, he believes it has been years or decades while he was only trapped for twenty minutes.

* WhatTheHellHero: Barnabas frightens off David's father, adding to the poor kid's woes. His mother already dead, now his father abandoning him as well. There's no sign that Roger explains his actions either.

-->'''Angelique:''' Liz, your perfect Collins pedigree lacked a bit of substance. So, I sent the werewolf who [[spoiler:bit Carolyn in her crib]]! Just like I made David no better than a bastard when I sent his mommy to the ocean floor to have tea with the tuna!

* RemakeCameo: Jonathan Frid, Lara Parker, David Selby and Kathryn Leigh Scott, who played Barnabas Collins, Angelique, Quentin Collins and Josette [=DuPres=] in the original ''Series/DarkShadows'', appear in the ball at Collinwood Manor (they are the group of people Barnabas greets as they arrive for "the happening"). This was the last role for Jonathan Frid, who died less than a month before the film opened (too late for the film to include a memoriam caption for him).

* MsFanservice: Creator/EvaGreen as the very sexy Angelique Bouchard. Even Creator/ChloeMoretz has a scene where she [[ShowSomeLeg shows some leg]] (her dress couldn't be much shorter).

** Creator/ChloeMoretz' [[spoiler: "Woof"]] to Elizabeth is a clear reference to [[spoiler: Creator/MichellePfeiffer's famous "Meow" as Catwoman in ''Film/BatmanReturns'']], delivered in much the same way.

''Dark Shadows'' is a film adaptation of the [[Series/DarkShadows TV series of the same name]] directed by Creator/TimBurton, with Creator/JohnnyDepp [[PromotedFanboy realizing his childhood dream]] of portraying the AffablyEvil vampire Barnabas Collins. Also in the cast are Creator/EvaGreen, Bella Heathcote, Creator/MichellePfeiffer, Creator/JonnyLeeMiller, Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter, Creator/JackieEarleHaley, and [[Creator/ChloeMoretz Chloë Grace Moretz]].

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: After Barnabas manages to wrest his hand from Angie's chest he fondles the air for about 10 seconds.

** [[spoiler: Collinwood manor burns to the ground during Barnabas and Angelique's FinalBattle.]]

* GenreBlindness: You'd think all that everyone'd know that Barnabas was a vampire after he mentions that [[spoiler: his hand should've burst into flames by touching the silverware and his declaration to focus his attention on family after 200 years at breakfast]], or at least MAGGIE would've figured out it out after [[spoiler: deep-kissing]] the damned guy, but you'd be wrong.

** Though the treasure room was below ground and seemed framed by stone, so it had a more than decent chance of surviving. Certainly enough to work with if they ever decided to capitalize on the SequelHook at the end.